Project Status

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• Project Status
• Project schedule and re-baselining.
• Operations and Maintenance Plan
• Purpose, Functions, Organization/Governance
• Implementation and Requirements

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Schedule
The LANDFIRE Executive Oversight Committee
re-baselined the project eastern milestone from
March 30, 2008 to September 30, 2008.
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Current Budget
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LANDFIRE PROGRAM

• PRINCIPAL PURPOSES
• Provide national level, landscape scale
  geo-spatial products to support fire fuels
  management planning
• Provide consistent fuels data to support fire
  planning tools and analyses, such as Fire Program
  Analysis
• Provide landscape cross-boundary strategic
  products for fire and land management activities
• Supplement, as possible, planning and management
  activities, including monitoring, that require
  consistent vegetative data (e.g. grizzly bear
  project)
• Supplement, as possible, strategic and tactical
  planning for fire operations (e.g. WFDSS)

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LANDFIRE PROGRAM

• PROGRAM FUNCTIONS
• Data management
• Training Technology Transfer
• User support and program communications
• Data updates/currency
• Managing innovations and change
• New capabilities for existing uses
• New capabilities for new uses
• New technologies
• Governance

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LANDFIRE PROGRAM

• DATA CURRENCY AND UPDATES
• Short-term refresh of original (2001) data to be
  current up to 2009
• Biennial updates of data (starting 2009)
• Complete re-mapping of data (decadal cycle,
  beginning 2017)
• Refresh/Biennial Updates 9 Core Data Layers
• Decadal Update Re-mapping of applicable original
  data layers

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LANDFIRE Spatial Products

• Fire Behavior Layers
• 13 Anderson (1982) Fire Behavior Fuel Models
• 40 Scott/Burgan (2005) Fire Behavior Fuel Models
• Forest Canopy Bulk Density
• Forest Canopy Base Height
• Forest Vegetation (stand) Height
• Forest Canopy Cover
• Elevation
• Aspect
• Slope
• Fire Effects Layers
• Fuel Loading Models
• Fuel Characteristics Classification System (FCCS)

• Vegetation Layers
• Environmental Site Potential
• Biophysical Settings
• Existing Vegetation
• Existing vegetation height
• Existing vegetation cover
• Fire Regime Layers
• Fire Regime Condition Class (FRCC)
• FRCC Departure
• Fire Regime Groups
• Simulated Historical Fire Return Interval
• Percent of non-lethal fire
• Percent of mixed-severity fire
• Percent of stand-replacement fire
• Succession Classes

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LANDFIRE PROGRAM

• ORGANIZATION
• Interim Program management conducted by current
  organization
• 2009 Program management organization embedded in
  an existing federal agency TBD by June 2008
• Program manager and appropriate staff
• Use of contract support for many functions
• Ongoing joint USDA FS and DOI funding

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LANDFIRE PROGRAM

• GOVERNANCE
• Establish an executive-level steering group
• Provide oversight of and strategic direction to
  the program management organization
• Manage innovation, including prioritization of
  new functionality
• Collaboration and coordination with non-fire
  programs and organizations
• Integration with legacy and future programs and
  capabilities (e.g. forest health)
• Mechanism for customer involvement and feedback
• RESOURCE REQUIREMENTS
• FY 2008 1.2 million
• FY 2009 2014 2.8 million annually (biennial
  remapping program)
• FY 2015 2016 3.7 million annually (continued
  biennial updates and data collection for decadal
  remapping)
• FY 2017 2019 - 7.0 million annually (decadal
  remapping years)

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Funding by Year